Running Five & Change at the North Carolina Arboretum

This is a run I’ve done ten or more times over the past few years at the North Carolina Arboretum in Asheville. I did it yesterday for the first time in a year or more. It’s about five and a half miles — I can’t know for sure because my Garmin always seems to lose satellite contact at some point in this run. It’s mostly gravel road and double wide mountain trails. It’s helpful to get an Arboretum Trail map for this. They don’t actually have a map to download but they do have trail descriptions. They have a nice trail map you can pick up at the Arboretum. Here’s the trail descriptions page …